Lynne Kiesling Because of the web site trauma here and the AEA meetings I am late to the party, but Austan Goolsbee’s NYT Economic Scene column from Thursday is a worthy read. He makes a point that I’ve made here several times: over the past 50 years we have increasingly gotten more bang for the …
Lynne Kiesling I signed up for my first planned trathlon of 2007 today: Tri Shark Sprint Triathlon, 2 June 2007. Off-season training is going well, although I’ve been a bit lacking in motivation during the past two weeks. One of the Christmas presents in the KP house was a “killer headwind” attachment to our bike …
Lynne Kiesling OK, two hours I didn’t have, spent re-posting three weeks of lost posts … at least it was over the holidays, so we were on light volume! Many comments were lost, for which I apologize. Two things made it possible for me to recover from my idiocy (I thought I had backed up …
Lynne Kiesling Hi there. How are you? I’m fine. I hope you had a good holiday. We had a slight crisis here over the past few days, because on New Year’s Day I tried to clean up the MT installation here, with disastrous consequences. I’ve had to ask the hosting company to restore from backup, …
Michael Giberson The Texas PUC has released its “2007 Scope of Competition in Electric Markets in Texas” report. The Dallas Morning News reported a story headlined Power company competition not working, report says. The story said: The report offered suggestions for the Legislature as it goes into session next month, including ideas that would cut …
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Michael Giberson A post at the Energy Legal Blog argues that a pair of recent court decisions will be the death of competitive wholesale power markets, at least in the Western United States, unless the Supreme Court reverses.
Lynne Kiesling James Surowiecki had a nice little column about sugar and ethanol tariffs in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. As is his wont, he concisely summarizes the pros and cons of ethanol, focusing on the higher net energy balance that cane sugar ethanol has relative to corn ethanol. He also applies …
Michael Giberson A Starbucks sits just around the corner from the E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C. It’s where I headed immediately after watching Black Gold, a documentary on the global coffee business that — if you believe the press clippings and blurbs on the official site — is galvanizing consumers into action and has …
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Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Adler has a nice post about carbon policy in the US and Europe, building on an editorial in today’s WSJ (subscription required). Jonathan notes: While talking tough about the need to reduce emissions, many European nations are moving in the opposite direction. Only two (the United Kingdom and Sweden) look likely to …
Lynne Kiesling Check out this Technology review article about using flexible electronics to enable wireless powering of devices through induction. Nikola Tesla, spin over in your grave and call your office! The power sheet, says Takao Someya, professor of engineering at the University of Tokyo, relies on the well-known physical principle of electromagnetic induction, used …
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